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First Person: Southern Madagascar, where girls are sold into marriage before they are born

1 year 1 month ago Breadcrumb Home First Person: Southern Madagascar, where girls are sold into marriage before they are born 16 March 2024 UN News/Daniel Dickinson Nodely Lehilaly regularly attends positive masculinity group sessions in his village in southern Madagascar. Efforts are being made in the south of Madagascar to end a traditional but illegal practice in which girls are promised as a wife to older men, sometimes…

UN calls for united action to combat rising Islamophobia

1 year 1 month ago Breadcrumb Home UN calls for united action to combat rising Islamophobia 15 March 2024 © UNICEF/Ahmed Elfatih Mohamdeen Displaced girls play at a UNICEF-supported learning space in Al Salam, Sudan. Amid a rising tide of anti-Muslim hate, top UN officials condemned the scourge on Friday as the General Assembly adopted a resolution to push back against it during commemorations marking the International…

World News in Brief: Rights chief appalled at Nigeria mass abductions, ‘pervasive’ hunger in streets of Sudan, Syria child crisis

1 year 1 month ago Breadcrumb Home World News in Brief: Rights chief appalled at Nigeria mass abductions, ‘pervasive’ hunger in streets of Sudan, Syria child crisis 15 March 2024 © UNICEF Niger/Islamane Abdou Aid is distributed to displaced families who fled violence in Nigeria and have settled in Niger. (file) UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk on Friday expressed outrage at the recent abductions by gunmen of…

I lost hope and will to live, in Russian jail, says Ukraine POW

1 year 1 month ago Breadcrumb Home I lost hope and will to live, in Russian jail, says Ukraine POW 15 March 2024 © EU/Oleksandr Rakushnyak With severe damage to housing, water and electricity supply, heating and public infrastructure such as schools and health facilities, the impact of the ongoing war in Ukraine on civilians is staggering. Fresh evidence of “horrific…widespread and systematic” abuse and…

Gaza: 23 million tonnes of debris ‘will take years to clear’; acute malnutrition doubles in a month

1 year 1 month ago Breadcrumb Home Gaza: 23 million tonnes of debris ‘will take years to clear’; acute malnutrition doubles in a month 15 March 2024 © UNICEF/Eyad El Baba Children stand in front of a house demolished by a bombardment in the city of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip... The war in Gaza has left a staggering almost 23 millions tonnes of rubble and unexploded weapons scattered across the enclave, UN humanitarians…

Top UN official slams Russia’s illegal elections in occupied Ukraine

1 year 1 month ago Breadcrumb Home Top UN official slams Russia’s illegal elections in occupied Ukraine 15 March 2024 Photo courtesy of Ukrainian Women’s Fund Women fleeing the combat zones of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts stand in line to receive humanitarian aid. (file) The UN’s top political affairs official on Friday briefed the Security Council and slammed ongoing Russian elections in illegally occupied areas of Ukraine…

Haiti crisis: UN mission announces airbridge to facilitate aid relief

1 year 1 month ago Breadcrumb Home Haiti crisis: UN mission announces airbridge to facilitate aid relief 14 March 2024 © IOM/Antoine Lemonnier A group of displaced people hosted in a school in the center of Port-au-Prince, in site Jean-Marie Vincent. Out-of-control gang violence has created a humanitarian crisis in Haiti that the UN aims to help alleviate with the creation of an airbridge with the neighbouring Dominican…

Gaza: Aid missions constantly under threat, warns UN humanitarian chief

1 year 1 month ago Breadcrumb Home Gaza: Aid missions constantly under threat, warns UN humanitarian chief 14 March 2024 © UNRWA Children in a Gaza shelter Desperately needed aid operations in Gaza must be protected from attack, the UN’s top aid official has warned, amid reports on Thursday that Palestinians were killed and injured while waiting for supplies in Gaza City…

UN chief calls for people-centered approach to combat drug stigma

1 year 1 month ago Breadcrumb Home UN chief calls for people-centered approach to combat drug stigma 14 March 2024 © UNICEF/Giacomo Pirozzi Hands of an injecting drug user in Odesa, southern Ukraine. (file) The UN Secretary-General on Thursday called for “putting people first” by ending the stigma and discrimination around those who use drugs and the expansion of prevention and treatment programmes…

Security Council: ‘Risky military adventurism’ could push Yemen into new cycle of war

1 year 1 month ago Breadcrumb Home Security Council: ‘Risky military adventurism’ could push Yemen into new cycle of war 14 March 2024 © UNICEF/YPN An infant in his mother arms in Yemen's Ibb governorate. (file) The UN Special Envoy for Yemen on Thursday emphasized the urgent need for a nationwide ceasefire and measures to improve living conditions in the war-ravaged country…